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I joined Yahoo!’s original Lifestyles team after Food made its debut in November 2006. Food features many recipes from various providers, as well as foodie blogs from guys such as Serious Eats and Yahoo!’s resident foodies, Maggie Nemser and Sarah Fuss.

As part of a concentrated effort to optimize page load speeds, I have consolidated a bunch of UI images into a larger sprites such as this to reduce HTTP requests. Combined with some HTTP header adjustments and other tweaks per YDN’s recommendations, we ended up with much snappier pages. This practice continues to persist in other properties we’ve built later.